Anthropic dragged to court by Warner, Sony Music over 'blatant theft' of IP

Anthropic becomes the latest AI company to be sued over how it trained its AI models. Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music took Anthropic and its co-founders to a federal court in Northern California. The suit was filed late on Friday, August 28, and it accuses the AI firm of pirating over 20,000 songs to train its Claude chatbot. 

The lawsuit comes amid growing copyright suits against AI companies. Just last year, Anthropic was ordered to pay $1.5 billion by the courts after it was sued by authors in another piracy case. 

The plaintiffs in this case argue Anthropic has not changed its pattern of pirating copyrighted content.

Why are publishers suing Anthropic? 

The 48-page filing tells of Anthropic’s antics, calling it “one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history,” naming CEO Dario Amodei and co-founder Benjamin Mann as individual defendants as well as the company.  

The plaintiffs accuse the Amodei-led firm of running “a brazen campaign of illegally torrenting, scraping, and downloading copyrighted works” just to train Claude.

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